need of money sent their second born child to work in a Warren's Blackening factory. He worked beside ragged urchins, where passerbies could see him working through the window. The factory was a foul, rat infested palace next to the Thames River. Charles was then abandoned by his parents, John Dickens was arrested for debt, and moved himself and his family into the Marshal Sea Prison, except for Charles who was forced to survive on his own on the streets of London. A place where the survival rate of children was only fifty percent, most wouldn't make it to adulthood. Charles proved to be quite adept at surviving for a few months when his father was released thanks to an inheritance, but much
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